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The Energy Department proposed $3.3 million in fines Friday against managers of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab because of a security breakdown in which classified documents were found in a trailer-park drug raid.
The enforcement action stems from an incident in October 2006, when police found more than 1,000 pages of classified documents and several computer storage devices in a trailer occupied by a former worker at the lab.
And this is VERY concerning (from the same story):
Last month it was learned that a consultant to the board of the new management consortium had sent an e-mail containing highly classified, non-encrypted nuclear weapons information to several board members, who forwarded it to other board members over unsecured computer systems. (emphasis added)
It seems to me that the consultant probably did not intentionally mean to leak this information. It leads me to ask: what percentage of security breaches happen from carelessness rather than malicious intent?
